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From: jhess@orion.oac.uci.edu (James Hess)
Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
Subject: Re: Leaving components turned on.
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Date: 4 Jan 91 15:00:34 GMT
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In article <8634@uwm.edu> ph@ama-1.ama.caltech.edu (Paul Hardy) writes:
>
>With tubes, you can use a Variac to keep them at, say, 25 VAC and turn
>this up to 120 VAC for listening.  This gets around the power-on spikes,
>and keeps the other components (e.g., caps) warmed up to some degree.
>
>Anyone know of a good commercial source for Variacs?
>

Any electronics supply house.  TV and stereo servicers use them all the time.

[Variac is a trademark of GenRad; you'll want to ask for a variable
autotransformer. -tjk]